Tuesday, June 16, 2015

What's up! Long time no see. Things are going great here, it was a
pretty cool week! To start, I woke up one morning to my birthday package!
Thank you so much! It felt like Christmas! I already made chocolate
chip pancakes :) it was powerful.

But yeah not too much happened
this week. One of the investigators that's progressing a lot is
Nonhlanhla. We taught her again and she's doing really well. She has the
gospel principles and teachings of the prophet book,
and she's reading from those and the Book of Mormon and just learning
more and more every day! And she's even fellowshipping other
investigators hahaha, the other day she went to these two sisters
Sibulelo and Puleng and was talking to them about church and was just
like "You need to come again!" even though we've been teaching them for
longer than Nonhlanhla haha. She'll make a great member.

The cool thing about our branch is that even the investigators
fellowship each other, because the veterans remember what it was like to
come to church for the first time so they always talk to the new people
and make them feel welcome! The branch has really turned around in the
last 6 months, so it's cool to see the members becoming more
enthusiastic about the work!

And because my companion is going
home next week, he and some others from his group all got to go to the
temple, so that's what we did on Saturday!
It was super nice, I hadn't been in like five months so it felt good to
get inside again! I'm really lucky to be by one of the 2 temples in
Africa! And I got to talk with the Elders who are in my last area, and
they updated me on everything which made me super happy! We had a
baptism in Daveyton, and a few days after we saw the recent convert
(Sipho) talking to his friend so we went and were talking to him, and he
seemed like a pretty big joker, but we still taught him twice before I
left, and now apparently now he's getting baptized this Sunday! So it's pretty cool to see the fruits of labors that happened a long time ago.

On the way home from the temple we got McDonalds and it was the
best meal ever hahaha, I haven't had a chocolate shake the entire time
I've been here, so we went and dropped rand and I had a double cheese
burger and a shake and was dipping the fries in the shake, yo it tasted
like In-N-Out! It was pretty tight.

So yeah, all in all a
great week! Thanks again for the b-day package, those chocolate chips
will last me till the end of time hahaha.